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Wednesday, 11 March 2015

A True Scripture and a True Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon him)

Lesson # 649 From Holy Qur’aan

A True Scripture and a True
Messenger

‘Al-Maaa-‘idah (the
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)–Stage
- 2

Verses
– 85 & 86 of 120, Section – 11 of 16 (Part - 7)

BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim

In the name of Allaah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful

85. Therefore
Allaah hath rewarded them for their
saying so - Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide for
ever. And that is the reward of the good.

86. But
those who disbelieved and denied Our Revelations, they are owners of
Hell-fire.

‘Asaaba – (rewarded), it is from ‘asaabata, it has been derived from
Sawaab, which means ‘the future
reward of a virtue’. ‘Asaaba means rewarded. ‘As-haabun – (owners), it is plural of Saahib,which has been derived from Suhbat. Suhbatmeans ‘society, company, meeting’. Saahibmeans ‘companion, friend, guardian of
anything forever’. Along with any other word, its meaning will become ‘owner’. ‘As-haabul-jannah
– ‘the owners of Paradise’, and ‘As-haabul-Jahiim (Naar) -‘the owners of Hell-fire’.

The people who listened Holy
Qur’aan from Prophet Muhammad (grace, glory, blessings and peace
be upon him) and said, “He (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon him)
is a True Messenger, and this (Holy Qur’aan)
is a True Scripture”, for them Allaah
Almighty has suggested a very good reward in retaliation of their saying so, which
will be given them in the Hereafter and since Allaah Almighty shall fulfill His promise surely. Therefore; it is commanded
in this verse, “(Allaah) has rewarded”.
Many of these people were the Christians and less in numbers were the Jews, who
believed by listening to the Holy Qur’aan.
Due to this reason, it was told in previous verses, that the Jews are vehement in enmity of the Muslims and the Christians
are not too much severe. After that, it has been described that it does not depend
on the Christians and the Jews. Whichever nation would have these qualities i.e.
the knowledge of the religion, disinclination from the worldly gains and having
not haughtiness, they will begin to love the Muslims very soon; otherwise they
will be vehement in enmity of the Muslims.

It is commanded
that Allaah Almighty will reward them (Believers) Gardens, underneath which rivers flow, wherein
they will abide forever. And that is the reward of the good because of their
recognition of the Truth and saying: “Our Lord! We have believed; so inscribe
us as among the witnesses. And why should we not believe in Allaah and that which has come unto us
of the Truth; and why should we not hope that our Lord will bring us in along
with righteous folk? But those who disbelieve and deny Our Revelations, they
are owners of Hell-fire”.

Holy Qur’aan desires to guide the human beings to go the way, on which there
is ease and comfort for everyone in this world and immortal pleasure after
death forever. In fact this way has been established for the human being.
Leaving this way, whichever way he will choose, he will repent. And if he is
seen apparently escaped in this world, even then he cannot obtain real
happiness, and certainly he would have to suffer very severe punishment after
death.

Method of Holy Qur’aan about causing to understand the
people is so much strange that it is impossible for anyone if that person thinks
on it deeply and does not understand it. But the difficulty is that everyone is
not lucky enough to meditate in it with a cold heart. Some such intricacies come
between that neither the opportunity of hearing is gotten, nor of reciting and
nor of understanding. Moreover, some people become opposite and at last they
set their heart, “We do not know that what he says. We shall do that what we
wish”.

This is utmost bad luck of the
human being. Holy Qur’aan is aware
that it will be treated in this way, but even then it does not give up
admonishing due to this reason. Neither it cares nor has any fear of anyone’s
stubbornness, animosity or opposition. Whatever it has to clear, it describes
in its fixed manner very easily and strongly.

In this Chapter, Secrets of the Infidels,
the Disbelievers, the Christians, the Jews and the Hypocrites are being disclosed.
And its purpose is that the person, whosoever wishes to be saved from these
evils, should escape and adapt the right path. From all of these five types of the
people, whoever wants to arrange one’s worldly life and the Day of
Resurrection, can dress them by believing and doing good works. Otherwise he
will repent, and a time will come when he will cry, mourn and weep.

The Jews and the Christians have
been discussed more frequently because of the expectation that they would
understand the matter, refrain themselves from the depravity and prevent others
also. But the Jews were in the condition that in the past times, they turned
away after admitting that they were good and tormented their Advisers. Even that
they used to slay the Prophets (peace be upon them). The Christians were somewhat
better than them. They did not practice that hatred behavior against the Muslims
which the Jews did. But alas! They also did not believe in Islam and the
Messenger of Islam (grace, glory, blessings and peace
be upon him), and trapped in their own
thoughts. At the end, this lesson teaches that only that person will reap the
advantage from Islam who will learn the knowledge of Islam, will not be wisher
of the worldly gains and will not consider himself great than others. That is
to say; would not be proud. The former Christians had these qualities, but the
Jews did not. Therefore their hearts used to incline towards Islam sooner than the
Jews. We should meditate deeply in the previous lessons and then judge ourselves
that whether we have those evils or not, which the Jews had. And if (God
forbid) we find any evil like them in ourselves then we should purify ourselves
from it.

Transliterated
Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from
Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall,
Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islaah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated Urdu to
English by Muhammad Sharif)